Cracked screen
The iPhone 17 has an OLED display, and this is where the trade cuts corners. Plenty of shops fit OLED iPhones with an "incell" LCD panel because it costs a fraction of the price. It works, but blacks look grey, colours wash out, the glass sits thicker, and battery life suffers because an LCD backlight is always lit. We tell you exactly which panel we are quoting for before you agree to anything. Apple pairs the display to the logic board, so we move the original calibration across to the new panel. Skip that step and the screen still works, but True Tone and auto-brightness stop behaving as they should.
Battery replacement
Apple designs the iPhone 17's battery to keep about 80% of its capacity after 1,000 full charge cycles. Yours is still young, so a battery is rarely the first repair it needs, but health is easy to check in Settings, Battery, Battery Health. iOS also checks that the battery is genuine and correctly fitted; get that wrong and you see a service message and lose battery health reporting. The way we fit batteries keeps health reporting working.
Face ID and your screen repair
Face ID on the iPhone 17 lives in the sensor array at the top of the phone, not in the display, so a careful screen replacement leaves it working. What breaks it is carelessness: the flex cables carrying those sensors are fragile, and a damaged Face ID part cannot be swapped for a new one because it is paired to the logic board. We check Face ID before we start, so if the drop already broke it you hear that first.
Back glass
A cracked back on the iPhone 17 is quoted after inspection rather than from a price list. How the rear panel comes away has changed across recent generations, and the difference between a panel swap and a housing job is too large to guess at.
Charging faults
Charging faults on the iPhone 17 come through the USB-C port, and the port is usually the problem rather than the board. Ports wear with every cable pulled out at an angle, and pocket lint packs into the bottom until the plug can no longer seat. Often a careful clean fixes it; if not, it is a port repair rather than anything more serious. If it charges but more slowly than it used to, try a different charger first: USB-C fast charging depends on the charger and cable as much as the phone.
Liquid damage
Liquid damage on the iPhone 17 is corrosion, not just water, and it keeps spreading after the phone feels dry. Its water-resistance rating is a factory figure that weakens with every drop and repair. Apple's warranty does not cover liquid damage on any iPhone. Turn it off, do not charge it, and skip the rice. We strip the phone, clean the board ultrasonically and test each part individually — and if it cannot be saved economically, we say so and put your data first.
Cameras, speakers and buttons
Blurry or black photos, a cracked camera lens cover, a front camera that fails on video calls, muffled speakers and buttons that stop responding are all individually repairable on the iPhone 17. Cracked lens glass is often just the cover — a much smaller job than a new camera module — so we check which one you actually need before quoting.
